Abstract : Information poverty is a new form of poverty in
information society. With the growing information-gap between urban and
rural areas, information poverty is prevailing in the vast rural areas
in China. It is largely restricted the new rural construction and the
social harmonious development of villages and towns and must be
resolved. The evaluation of rural information poverty is the premise to
resolve it. In order to estimate the problem, index system of rural
informatization evaluation of Hebei province was designed by means of
Delphi. Then, according to the survey of farmers' information demand,
AHP and FCE were used to estimate rural information poverty of Hebei
province. The purpose of this study is to provide a new operational
approach in evaluating or solving rural information poverty and
constructing rural informatization in China.